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By JOANNE MIKULA, Staff Writer Photo from Amazon book page From 2009 to 2011, Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard was absorbed in a monumental task; a series of six books provocatively titled “My Struggle” that chronicle his everyday life. Nothing was too insignificant nor too shameful to include in this series, from his morning cigarette…
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by JULIA HABLAK, Staff Writer We the Animals author Justin Torres visited Bryn Mawr College on Sept. 20 to deliver the first Creative Writing Reading Series talk of the 2017-18 school year. Earlier in the day, Torres held a question and answer session for Tri-Co students on Bryn Mawr’s campus. The audience was largely made…
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By NAOMI BONILLA, Staff Writer I went to see the musical Hamilton earlier this month with my uncle. I was excited, as I’d been trying to find tickets for two years. Fifteen minutes before the opening number, the taxi was stuck in traffic and we realized we might miss the opening number. We got off…
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By JULIA HABLAK, Staff Writer The 2017-2018 Music Season at Haverford College kicked off on Sunday, Sept. 17, with a performance by cellist Jason Calloway in the Union Music Center. It was an intimate space, and made more so by the fact that Calloway stood at the side talking familiarly with friends and colleagues while…
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By BELLE WEINER, Staff Writer If you wander across either Bryn Mawr or Haverford’s campus on a Friday night and hear voices echoing in French, don’t worry, you are not losing your mind. The colleges’ French departments are hosting weekly film screenings as part of the French Mutations Film Festival. The festival received funding from…
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By KATE HAWTHORNE, Staff Writer From April 13-15, Bryn Mawr College’s Shakespeare Performance Troupe presented Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will—with a few variations. In their adaptation, co-directors Elizabeth Yost, BMC ‘19 and Kristiana Marcopoulos, BMC ‘18 decided to rework an ending they found “troublesome”. In their rendition of the play, the couples…
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By EMMA ROGERS, Staff Writer DEARBED transforms the ordinary into the thought-provoking. The piece–a biographical art exhibit presented and performed in Founders’ Great Hall April 7 and 8–consisted of both an ongoing performance section as well as an interactive exhibition featuring stories from Tri-Co students. DEARBED is art in its most deliberate form: honest, unforgiving,…
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By Emma Rogers, Staff Writer This past week, the Academy of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA featured the Roundabout Theater Company’s production Cabaret, in celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary. Cabaret is the story of Clifford Bradshaw (Benjamin Eakeley), an aspiring American novelist, who, in hopes of finding inspiration for his work, travels to Berlin,…
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By KATE HAWTHORNE, Staff Writer On the evening of March 16, 2017, the long-awaited Disney live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast was released in theatres. The film has been highly anticipated for a variety of reasons. Many fans were curious regarding Disney’s decision to officially proclaim the character Le Fou as gay and their…
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By DIANA POPE, Staff Writer On Friday, March 17, the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford opened its latest exhibit, “Resistance After Nature”, which focuses on the cultural, environmental, and political effects of environmental degradation. The exhibit includes a mix of photographs, paintings, sculptures, videos, and maps that offer perspectives on both the cultural and scientific…
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